What’s up guys it’s me Jeremy!
So the new League of Legends champion, Camille has been teased in a comic that was released
on the League of Legends website, and yesterday there were tons of rioter comments and hints
about what her abilities are going to end up looking like.
Now although we won’t know what her abilities are exactly until Tuesday at 11am pst when
she is revealed, or at least that’s when I’d expect her to get revealed based on
previous champion release scheduling, there’s a lot of things that assorted rioters have
confirmed about Camille’s abilities that’s going to allow us to make some pretty accurate
predictions as to what her abilities are actually going to end up being.
And I did some digging and I found as much information about her as I possibly could,
and there’s definitely a lot of info that nobody is talking about
at all!
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– Quick announcement So probably our biggest teaser for Camille
comes from Riot scarizard who shared a ton of information about her on a recent Q&A stream
with Riot Ghostcrawler.
Let’s take
a look.
So What Scarizard said comes down to a couple things.
First off, every ability she has is going to be some kind of kick or have some kind
of kicking effect, and as well her basic attack will be a kick too.
This leads us to believe that she will be a melee champion, since a basic attack that
is a kick being ranged doesn’t exactly make sense, right?
And since she is melee, that leaves open the possibilities of her being either an assassin,
a bruiser, or a tank.
Now a tank is extremely unlikely, and based on the comic she definitely felt like an assassin
since that’s lite rally what she does in the comic, is she sneaks in and assassinates
someone, but the possibility of her being a bruiser isn’t that farfetched, however
we’ve had bruisers released recently in the form of Kled and Illaoi, whereas the last
assassin released goes all the way back to Ekko, so her being an assassin is definitely
the most likely style for her to fit in.
Riot Ghostcrawler also commented in the same Q&A that Camille had a very visceral feel
to her, meaning she feels very concrete and proactive and stuff, like very snappy if that
makes sense, so that’s something that I could see that would make her super fun to
play with!
Riot Jag, who is the designer for Camillie also teased a few bits and pieces of things
here and there.
And there’s a lot so let’s speedrun through them.
First off, he said that Camille is going to be fairly difficult to play, and have a skill
ceiling that is on the high end but not crazy high, which again hints at her being an assassin
most likely, as well as having some outplay potential and reasonably complex mechanics.
He also confirmed again the concept of her having bladed kicks, just like scarizard confirmed
on the stream.
He also described her as being super super fun to play, and that he was very excited
for her pbe release next week!
So overall she’s looking pretty cool.
We can also get a lot from the comic and what she does in there in terms of her actual abilities.
No doubt she will have some kind of ability that shoots a blade out at range.
Whether that’s her basic attack and she is a ranged champion, or her main harass tool,
I’d definitely expect that ability to be like her main laning and harass tool that
would probably be on her Q. She is also likely to have some kind of mobility spell using
the zip line thingies that seem straight out of attack on titan almost.
Based on the way they are deisgned, I’d expect this to be a gap closer that shoots
out a skillshot and if it hits an opponent or if it hits a wall, you would dash towards
them and kick them at the end of it.
Now that would definitely be a super cool ability to play with!
As well, this kind of grappling hook ability is something that has been messed around with
a lot in the past on previous champions.
I can’t say for sure, but I believe they tried to make something similar work with
Kled in terms of like his hook interacting with terrain, as well as attempting a similar
ability on a couple other champions, so it’s something they have been trying to bring to
life in a while, and although it would be quite similar to nautlius’ Q, it’s functionally
a lot different since it would pull Camille the entire distance, rather than having both
champions meet at the halfway point.
And since it’s an ability that has been scrapped before, and had many iterations attempted,
it’s something that I could be extremely likely for them to bring back for Camille
since it seems to fit so well!
Riot scruffy also commented on twitter saying that Camille’s kit really delivers on what
happens in the comic, so I’d say the predictions based on the comic are definitely going to
be accurate.
Riot August and Riot Exgeniar also hinted a little bit at stuff with their comments,
which to me again confirm the similarities to Vi, but also introduce some similarities
to Jayce.
Now the Vi similarities are pretty straightforward and obvious, since Riot Scarizard lined them
out for us, but as far as similarities to jayce go, it’s a bit tricky, since this
potentially introduces the possibility of her having two forms.
The last time riot released a dual form champion that could change at will was Quinn’s Rework,
and if you don’t count that, then it’s elise.
Now they released a lot of dual form champions that can’t change at will, but it’s been
4 years since the last new champion release of a shapeshifting two-forms dude, so it’s
not impossible, but this is quite a specific mechanic to predict off of such a small whim
that I would still consider this unlikely.
What is a bit more likely, is for her to have something similar to an ability from jayce’s
melee form.
Her having a kick ability that is a knockback similar to Jayce’s melee form E would be
probably the most likely prediction, I mean an ability like that just makes so much sense
for everything we know.
It would fit in perfectly as an ability that is a kick, it gives her that visceral melee
style riot ghostcrawler decided, and it also gives her a mechanic which leads me into my
next point!
Riot Reav3 also hinted that Camille is going to be an anti-assassin champion, and that
kick knockback ability could totally fit to give her that sort of an anti-assassin tool.
This definitely makes a lot of sense to me, since we had the assassin reworks recently,
and it’s a niche that could work quite well.
This concept of an anti-assassin is something that is super cool and definitely fits in
perfectly with her personality based on what we saw from the comic.
And so from that she is almost certainly either going to be a bruiser, or an assassin herself,
and there’s little doubt that she will have some kind of anti-assassin capabilities!
Whether that’s in the form of some tankiness, some crowd control, or something else it’s
tough to say but I really see her having an ability that is a knock-back kick kind of
effect, and she will definitely have some kind of anti-assassin tools.
I really hope she is an assassin, because having an anti-assassin assassin could be
super fun to play with for sure!
Something I also thought was a little interesting, is that we have some specific information
about quite a few things that will definitely NOT be in her actual gameplay kit.
A few months back, a user on reddit posted this bingo sheet as a kind of a joke about
new champions and their gameplay kits, and Riot Jag commented that no champion that is
being released in 2016 actually scored a bingo on this chart, so looking at the bingo sheet,
we get a ton of information for combinations of things that won’t exist, which I thought
was kind of cool.
As well, Riot jag responded to comment of a user who asked if she would have any 3-hit
passives, % hp true damage, a blink, cross terrain mobility, stealth, or more than 3
passives, and Riot Jag responded and said that she will have exactly one of those mechanics
listed in her gameplay kit.
Now, if my theory of her kind of grappling hook is true, that rules out having a blink
or cross terrain mobility.
Now I really doubt she will have stealth, that just wouldn’t fit her personality,
and riot has stated that they are being extremely cautious with the introduction of any new
stealth mechanics so I’d consider that one unlikely.
Riot has also stated that they are kind of trying to avoid 3-hit passives since that
is an effect that they believe is a bit over-saturated in the game.
And as far as having 3 passives go, I’d have a hard time seeing her have 3 passives
in her kit WITHOUT having %hp true damage, so it’s safe to rule that one out as well,
and my money is definitely on her having % hp true damage in
her kit!
That or my theory about her dash is incorrect and she is going to have the ability to have
cross-terrain movement.
So either or the other, but I have a really difficult time seeing her have any of the
other mechanics based on the information that we know thus far.
There’s also a bunch of random notes and information not actually related to camille’s
gameplay that I thought was pretty interesting!
So again she’s designed by Riot Jag, of which this will be his first champion being
released.
Camille’s lore and story was written by Riot ThermalKitten, who also did the writing
on Taliyah!
As well the design for Camille was heavily influenced by Gazelle from the kingsman, who
is that one girl with the blade legs in the movie, great movie by the way, and of course
she draws some inspiration from Lin Beifong, and probably Attack on Titan as well.
Camille as a character as well isn’t a completely robotic figure, she was described by Riot
Jag as this augmented cyborg living person who’s kind of a mix between a human and
a robot.
And one thing that I thought was interesting that probably doesn’t mean anything to most
of you, is that Riot Jag confirmed that Camille was NOT the champion project that Riot Gypsy
aka Riot August passed onto another designer when he moved to work for Riot’s research
and development team, so if you guys know anything about Riot gyspy, well that further
confirms the theory that Camille will NOT have a 3 hit passive.
Either way though, that’s just about all of the information I could find.
I did my best to dig and find a lot of stuff as quickly as I could, so hopefully you learned
something about Camille or thought it was interesting at least.
A lot of what she’s going to have seems pretty clear cut to me, and there’s a lot
of predictions you can make that appear to be fairly accurate I would say.
Again look out for her actual announcement with gameplay and everything, almost certainly
being released on Tuesday at 11am pst, and if you enjoyed the video drop a like, subscribe
if you want, thanks for watching, and Ill see you guys next time!